Sorry Ive been gone for so long guys...After the death of my 7 month old daughter this July to S.I.D.S I took a little time off to regather myself. I thank my co-founders and all the others behind the scenes who helped keep this group strong and running. As a thanks to you all ( my Members) I would like to offer you my services for a little while. I will be doing some free portrait retouches for you guys. Keep in mind that I probably wont get to everyones submission, due to time, but I will do as many as I can. Please If you feel like you have a portrait thats in need of some assistance (skin retouching, color/contrast correction, lighting issues, overall cleanup)....Send me an email including the photo to brandonjonesphoto@yahoo.com . Subject the email "PLEASE RETOUCH" and state to me if you would like to have the picture e-mailed back to you or Posted here on Deviantart on my personal page. Thanks again to all of you, I look forward to returning some of the love that you all have shown amazingly beautiful over its lifetime! God Bless you all and Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays.

**P.S. Email the highest quality image available if possible. Brandonjonesphoto@yahoo.com

I have tried contacting the founder and I sent a support message through to DeviantArt support. This is the response I received:

"Hi There!

Thanks for your inquiry. We can only transfer ownership of a group if the founder of the group has been deactivated of banned. If the founder still has an activated account there isn't anything we can do. I can only suggest you try to contact that user and ask them to either become more active or to step down and place a new founder so the group can thrive. Sorry for the inconvenience."

So it looks like there is nothing we can do about making the group active until brandinisays either becomes active again or deactivates his account